Five-months pregnant athlete, Alysia Montano; Otodo Gbame settlers | Here are last week’s winners and losers

Nigeria’s Acting President delivered a powerful speech that struck through the core of Nigerian’s souls, this 5-months pregnant athlete nearly broke the internet, Johnny Depp may be considering reenacting an assassination scene from 1865 and Dino Melaye may have begun an early journey out of the Nigerian Senate.

From last week’s news cycle, we present you our winners and losers:

WINNERS

Alysia “badass mummy” Montano

The Olympic track runner got many women across the world rethinking their goals when she ran a 800-meter race at the US Track & Field Outdoor Championships. That’s nothing special, you think?

Well, she ran with a five-month pregnancy in her womb. Now, that’s definitely special.

Montano in her Wonder Woman sports bra ran across the track and although she crossed the finish line last, she emerged the star of the race. Apparently, running pregnant is her forte as she ran with her 8-month old fetus in 2014 too.

Acting President Yemi Osinbajo

It’s safe to say that the very endearing figure currently running the country while his ailing boss figures out his health issues in the UK, had his name imprinted on our winners list from the moment he was assigned the coordinating duties.

From his meetings with Northern leaders then with the 36 state governors where he decried the hate speeches and “quit notices” that have overrun the country, the Acting President sealed the week with a speech he delivered at the graduation ceremony of the Armed Forces in Kaduna.

Here’s a line from the 5-minute long speech: “The problem with hate-filled and divisive speech is that they tap into some of the basest human instincts, bringing up irrational suspicions, fear, anger, and hatred and ultimately mindless violence. People who have lived together as neighbours and friends suddenly begin to see each other as mortal enemies.”

Read the rest of it here.

Otodo Gbame settlers

The residents of this community have seen hell in the hands of the Lagos state government but a High Court sitting on Wednesday ruled that the government should discontinue evictions from Otodo Gbame.

The sitting judge described the forceful eviction of the Otodo Gbame people as “unconstitutional” and said the government should have provided alternative settlements for them.

This is an important victory for the Nigerian masses and indeed, the rest of us.

LOSERS

North Korea

Until the Kim Jong Un-led regime is able to explain the circumstances surrounding the death of 22-year-old American student, Otto Warmbier, it will remain a world-class loser.

The deceased’s parents say their son was tortured by the North Korean government after he was sentenced to 17 years imprisonment and hard labour for allegedly removing a propaganda banner from his hotel room.

Warmbier slipped into a coma immediately after he sentenced in a trial that lasted barely an hour and was shipped back to the US in a state of “unresponsive wakefulness”. He died less than a week after and North Korea now claims his death is “a mystery” to them.

Dino Melaye

However you want to think about it, Dino Melaye is certainly a loser.

The entire week saw him on the defensive claiming those who signed to have him recalled from the Senate are dead people. Dead or alive, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has received the petition to recall the Senator and the process of verifying the petitioners is in the works.

Dare we say Dino is about to make history!

Johnny Depp

It’s a fact. We do not like Trump!

But making statements suggesting to kill the American president is very unacceptable and dangerous too.

Johnny Depp was at Glastonbury Festival in Southwest England and before a cheering audience, the Pirates of the Caribbean actor asked a troubling question, “When was the last time an actor assassinated a President?” He went on to say, “I’m not an actor. I lie for a living. However it’s been a while and maybe it’s time

Apparently, he made reference to that time in 1865 when actor, John Wilkes Booth assassinated American president, Abraham Lincoln.

Depp has apologised but we honestly think Hollywood needs to slow down with its criticism of Trump.

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